Brazil 2016

Summary of my June 2016 tour:

• Brasilia: meeting point with S. Paula;  visit to the Jadim Botánico and the Chapada Imperial [photos A, E]
• Pirenópolos: IAVS 2016; talk: "Plant strategies in fire-prone ecosystems: hidden buds" [photo B]; Pireneus
• Rio Claro: Univesidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP); meeting with A. Fidelis & students (Luis, Talita, etc.). Visiting the Itirapina experimental fires [photo C]. Talk: "Fire, traits, and biodiversity: a global perspective".
• Piracicaba: Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), meeting with B. Appezzato-da-Glória and collaborators to study underground resprouting structures [photo D]
• Campinas: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP); meeting with V. Dantas and students (Paulo, André, etc.) [photo F]
• Sao Paulo: meeting W. Delitti (USP)

Photos: A (top left):  Susana Paula, Ericaulaceae and myself; B (top right) : my talk in Pirenópolis; C (bottom left): A. Fidelis and her students in front of an ‘underground tree’. D (center): Xylopodium with tuberous roots in Aldama (Appezzato-da-Glória lab); E (middle right): tree with a corky bark in the cerrado of the Jardim Botánico (Brasilia); E (bottom right): Having a drink with Vinicius Dantas in Campinas.

Related posts:

– Brazil 2015, jgpausas.blogs.uv.es 16 Mar 2015

– Fire shapes savanna-forest mosaics in the Brazilian cerrado, jgpausas.blogs.uv.es 14 May 2014

– Afrotropical and neotropical savannas are different, jgpausas.blogs.uv.es 29 Jul 2013

– Fire generates intraspecific trait variability in neotropical savannas, jgpausas.blogs.uv.es 28 Aug 2012

– Disturbance maintains alternative biome states, jgpausas.blogs.uv.es 9 Nov 2015